Re: Explain to an idiot the benefits of going back to the Gold standar
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Do we know how much gold the US GOVT currently has? What would happen if we just switched tomorrow and for arguments sake we had 100 Trillion in paper money but only 1 Trillion in gold.
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Per the usmint.gov website:
Amount of present gold holdings: 147.3 million ounces.
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